Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Rose ringed parakeet: Stanford Annual Christmas Lecture - "Dancing Links -- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture (Free Live Lecture)," Dear Prof. & CS Chair Aiken (Alex) and Prof. Emeritus Knuth (Don), Stanford President Emeritus Hennessy (John) and Prof. and Med Chair Harrington MD (Bob), and friends, * * * MIT "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems," Thank you PROFS. ALEXANDER KAPITONOV, Renita Murimi, and Aswin Karthik Ramachandran Venkatapathy, for your great MIT talks just today, ITMO Research University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in Google Street View ... With MIT's Sara Falcone's physical robots & lattice at ~3:59:00 https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU how could we begin to develop Lego #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Home Robotics with Lego Mindstorms EV3 & WeDo 2.0 like https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1070424412246032384 in #RealisticVirtualEarth esp for BLOCKCHAIN?


Dear Prof. & CS Chair Aiken (Alex) and Prof. Emeritus Knuth (Don) who's email I don't have,
Stanford President Emeritus Hennessy (John) and Prof. and Med Chair Harrington MD (Bob), and friends, 

Thank you, Don, again for your excellent Christmas Lecture "Dancing Links -- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture (Free Live Lecture)" - https://events.stanford.edu/events/815/81510/. (At your Xmas Lecture last year, Don, you kindly signed my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book's book mark here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/12/european-herring-gull-stanford-petr.html - which bookmark you may still have as well). Thank you as well.

And thank you, Alex, for your helpful introduction to Don's Christmas Lecture yesterday (as well as your excellent panel moderation at the Stanford Historical Society's "Creating World-Class Computer Science at Stanford: 60 Years of Innovation" which video you'll find here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/05/pelican-creating-world-class-computer.html - with my question which Nils Nilsson kindly replied to. In this same blog entry entitled "Pelican: "Creating World-Class Computer Science at Stanford: 60 Years of Innovation" video (I was at this), Beginnings of WUaS Corporation Mission Statement, "What is Alphabet's mission statement?", Google's Mission, World University and School's Mission statement as parent to WUaS Corporation," you'll find, Prof. Hennessy, Alphabet's Mission Statement at the time (about which I was curious). 

I'm writing, Alex and Don, to inquire about your suggestions for how best to grow CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School (both wings - both A) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School, and B) for profit general stock WUaS Press / Corporation ), both planned in ~200 countries' official and main languages for online CC-4 MIT OCW WUaS degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school - and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in 7,097 living languages.  

In exploring this with Stanford, I did meet two times recently with Jonathan Lai as a Stanford Graduate School of Education staff person/representative to explore developing a coding team for WUaS for both A) World University and School's platform, and B) the WUaS Press / Corp, out of the Stanford GSE, but it  doesn't appear that such a team is emerging after all. While I did begin 4 new WUaS web pages in Google Sites - e.g. https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/home - as a consequence of our meetings, one main strategic question remains for WUaS about how to tool for machine learning on both wings, the technical coding skills for which I don't have.

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With regard to the WUaS web platform development questions In Google Sites, I've now successfully created 4 web pages, but the 3 new ones aren't working publicly yet. I'm writing to ask for some help in figuring out how to make these, and this whole system and platform, work please.

This World Univ & Sch Home page is working in Sites:
A)
501 c 3 non-profit World University and School wing -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool ... (http://worlduniversityandschool.org)

but these new WUaS Corp pages aren't:
B)
for-profit general stock company WUaS Press / Corp -
Press: https://www.worlduniversityandschool.org/academicpressatworlduniversityandschool ... (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html)

Book: https://www.worlduniversityandschool.org/haikuish-poetry ... (http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html)

Book: https://www.worlduniversityandschool.org/naked-harbin-ethnography ... (http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html)

The latter three are all on the B) WUaS Press / Corp for-profit general stock company wing, and I could make these two books available in PDF format for sale immediately, if I get the payment system working (planned from all ~200 countries). And these web pages on the B) WUaS Co wing should eventually feed into a publicly traded stock price, after this wing goes public with an IPO.

Please remember that both A) and B) are separate legal entities in the state of California, and it's important for them to remain separate platform-wise I think (so the above new Press and Books' web pages could be considered mockups).

And WUaS already has Intuit Quickbooks for non-profits in the cloud - which correlates to non-profit A) ... but can't work with for-profit B.


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I'm attaching, for your information, WUaS's financial reports - for both wings - for this month. 

As Chairs, Alex and Bob, of Stanford Computer Science and Stanford Medicine, and in WUaS seeking, too, to develop online Medical Schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care again in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages (perhaps collaborating with Google's Project Baseline & Project ECHO) and possibly with the New England Journal of Medicine's Continuing Medicine Education (CME) modules as the basis for the first 2 years of online medical schools (again in ~200 countries' official languages), I wonder if you could suggest some Stanford CS graduate students / medical students with coding skills please?

I'm currently seeking a faculty position at Stanford, as World University and School seeks to develop - and also to hire potentially 30 Stanford graduate students to teach sections in group video/Google Hangouts to 100-500 online undergraduate students using MIT OCW and with the MIT faculty in video. For this World Univ & Sch World University and School has applied for a National Science Foundation Grant.

World University seeks to become the Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet and by accrediting in all ~200 countries' main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. high school degrees. Stanford would benefit from some fraction of the $46,320 per year per student it costs for tuition to go to Stanford/Harvard/MIT/, reimbursed  to WUaS by countries' and governments' ministries of education around the world - due to the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing +. And Alphabet would benefit from the WUaS Press / Corp's planned for-profit, general stock revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - in all ~200 countries' official languages, and indeed in all 7,097 living languages. 

How might we best follow up on some of these questions, and in particular to develop both WUaS platforms in tooling for machine learning? 

Thank you, and Merry Christmas, as well! 

All the best, Scott












Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)










PS

Within Google Sites, I'd like to begin to develop with this 4 column approach - https://www.harvard.edu/ - especially for WUaS's ~12 main areas: 


1 Languages (in all ~8,000+ - each a Uni or Sch with WUaS Universal Translator: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

2 Countries/Nation States with map (in all ~200+ countries, each a Uni or Sch in official/main languages)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States

3 You at WUaS & Admissions/Registering at WUaS for free, accrediting, best STEM-centric CC OCW, online Bach., Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees - planned for all 7.5 billion wiki teachers/learners
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University

4 Subjects (using SUBJECT TEMPLATE to create new subjects)

6 Music School at WUaS (planned for each of ALL instruments, and in all 7k languages as wiki)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School

7 Library Resources (all museums in all languages in a realistic virtual earth - think Google Streetview with time slider)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources

8 Museums (ALL museums ever in ALL 8k languages in a realistic virtual earth - think Google Streetview with time slider)



12 Research (best STEM CC OpenCourseWare-centric - in ~200 countries official languages, and in all 7,097 living languages as wiki schools)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research


How best to begin the "backend" planning for applying / registering / matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages - and first with accreditation and via the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education ... ie course catalog connected with matriculated students ... and all of this while tooling for machine learning. 

Thank you !

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So one further question I have is A) how to develop each of these WUaS wiki subject pages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - in an HTML editor,  and B) especially as a SUBJECT TEMPLATE in Miraheze Mediawiki re this SUBJECT TEMPLATE - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE (so turning this into a template accessing 300 languages eventually) - so that its sections (in each of ~300 languages) can interoperate with WIKIDATA / WIKIBASE - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibase - in 300 languages (MediaWiki and Wikidata/Wikibase are Wikipedia technologies too. FYI, WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development, and got Miraheze Mediawiki as a new wiki in 2017 as a consequence). I'd also like to learn how to work with the sidebar in Miraheze Mediawiki, perhaps with this specific page as an example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems - but with all ~725 WUaS wiki pages.

WUaS seeks to become the Harvard / Stanford / MIT / Oxbridge of the Internet in all ~200 countries' official languages for the degrees I've mentioned before, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all ~7097 living languages. MediaWiki with Wikidata / Wikibase in ~300 languages is a start. Eventually WUaS students will be able to add to all of these in this manner - https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1062417367261741057. 



PPS

Some further blog entries re your thinking Prof. Knuth - 

European herring gull: Stanford Petr Pridal Talk "Old Maps Online GIS and Cutting-Edge Technology," Film/video CONVERSION APPLICATION/PROGRAM into 3D interactive virtual world with avatar bots, And in what ways will people be able to wear dreadlock brain wave headsets, in the warm pool in a Watsu session (water shiatsu) for learning about the brain chemistry of water dance, enjoyment and healing at the neuronal and atomic levels, for example? Some related Actual>Virtual and Virtual>Actual recent @HarbinBook and @WorldUnivAndSch Tweets, Developing a research group in these regards as well perhaps with Stanford / MIT Media Lab students in a anthropological course I plan to teach re actual virtual Harbin, Asked the great computer scientist Stanford Don Knuth how to mathematize the making of a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs / earth / universe in terms of the "tight paving" example he talked about, A photo of Don Knuth and I (Scott MacLeod) with a picture of a lotus from this spring

Pan: Grateful Dead walking tour, Was at Stanford yesterday wondering about where the Grateful Dead had hung out in Palo Alto in the '60s and '70s, Found these great web pages, with street addresses, Wondering how I could create a Google Maps' walking tour, and think it would be easy * * * Upcoming book projects . . . Comparing the STEM ethos of Stanford with MIT's, "Creating World-Class Computer Science at Stanford: 60 Years of Innovation", Stanford ceili and African languages' events, Most interested in the WONDER in these Stanford / MIT STEM ethos(es) of innovation, Hacking even re Pekka Himanen's book "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age," He referred to people who did their work because of intrinsic interest, excitement, and joy, The mind-turning aspects of this idea generation




Thank you!

http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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I riffed a bit at the end of Don Knuth's Christmas Lecture about how he teaches:



Don Knuth teaches

Show and tell



He’s generous and kindly

Showing problem solving

One specific Computer Science problem after another

He 'troubles' the symbols

And is so active in mind

He’s a constant fount of knowledge

And Stanford CS intellectual engagement

He's kind of an engine of mathematical processing ... at 80 years of age, 

wearing his Swedish red colorful shirt. 


The NVIDIA hall room at Stanford is full – jam packed

His teaching is kind of beloved ... sweet ... he gives a lot and students sense this

His style makes people happy ... 


He’s made a list of solutions he wants to share with us for this Christmas talk

And he’s a also stream of computer science consciousness

N queens – putting a queen somewhere
 Solution – shortest distance to the center,
or the longest distance

Windmill dominoes
And you put a piece at a 45 degree angle


He’s working through a book he’s written

"I like to think these pages contain 
The best write-ups of these 7 puzzles"

'All as fascinating as Soduku '
and there's so much that is fascinating in these 
recreational math puzzles

I wish you all a merry Christmas


People Swedish dancing on screen
then ballet dancing on a grid,

is how his talk began, 
and he turns this into 
math and computer science thinking





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Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems


https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU



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At the ~2:37:00 minute mark ...

11:30 - 12:00 - Alexander Kapitonov


Thank you PROF. ALEXANDER KAPITONOV for your great MIT talk just now https://www.media.mit.edu/events/symposium-on-blockchain-for-robotics/ … (Prof at ITMO Univ in Robotics http://www.blockchainrobotics.org/ ) To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Machine_Learning … in all ~200 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … > #RealisticVirtualEarth ~ @neha ~ #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~

How best might we communicate further about a realistic virtual earth for robotics and blockchain ledger / modeling? (Think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Blockchain ledger +). 

World University and School is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages seeks to become Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet for online university degrees, including with online law schools in each of all ~200 countries' official languages. 

Greetings Neha and Alexander from the SF Bay Area. 

Thank you, 
Scott
Languages-World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod




PROF. ALEXANDER KAPITONOV
Alexander Kapitonov is an Associate Professor and Chief Research Associate at ITMO University Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, as well as a Research Associate at Adaptive and Nonlinear Control Systems Lab.




ITMO in Saint Petersburg in Google Street View ... 


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At the ~3:59:00 minute mark ...

1:00 - 1:15 - Sara Falcone & John Zhang

Blockchain-based Protocol for Embedded Systems


With MIT's Sara Falcone's physical robots & lattice at ~3:59:00 https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU how could we begin to develop Lego #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Home Robotics with Lego Mindstorms EV3 & WeDo 2.0 like https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1070424412246032384 in #RealisticVirtualEarth esp for BLOCKCHAIN?




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1070727128704966656

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With these simple physical robots, and lattice structure, that Sara shows at ~3:59:00 https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU how could we begin to develop Lego Robotics from home - both actually and virtually, physically and digitally - with Lego Mindstorms EV3 and WeDo 2.0, an in a realistic virtual earth for Lego - and especially for BLOCKCHAIN?

With the physical robots & lattice MIT's Sara Falcone shows at ~3:59:00 https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU how could we begin to develop Lego #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital Home Robotics with Lego Mindstorms EV3 & WeDo 2.0 & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego - especially for BLOCKCHAIN?


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1070726022176243712


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https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1070424412246032384


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At the ~ 4:12:00 minute mark ...

1:15 - 1:30 - Renita Murimi

A Blockchain-enhanced framework for social networking sites


Thank you Renita Murimi for your MIT talk - 'A Blockchain-enhanced framework for social networking sites.' I really enjoyed your presentation, work and thinking. Hope to communicate further about this. Best regards, Scott https://wiki.worlduniversityandschoool.org scottmacleod.com @WorldUnivAndSch ~

Thank you @renitamurimi for your remarkable MIT 'A Blockchain-enhanced framework for social networking sites' https://www.media.mit.edu/events/symposium-on-blockchain-for-robotics/ - http://www.blockchainrobotics.org/ To  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics  & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Networks_-_Technical & in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States > #RealisticVirtualEarth ~ @neha ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1070396083786797056


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At the ~ 4:40:00 minute mark ...

Thank you too Aswin Karthik Ramachandran Venkatapathy https://twitter.com/akrv1 for your great ‘Decentralized Context Broker using Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus’ presentation. Hope to communicate further about this too.

Thank you Aswin Karthik Ramachandran Venkatapathy https://twitter.com/akrv1 for your great MIT ‘Decentralized Context Broker using Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus’ talk https://www.media.mit.edu/events/symposium-on-blockchain-for-robotics/ - http://www.blockchainrobotics.org/ > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1070397152524816384



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How best might we communicate further about a realistic virtual earth for robotics and blockchain ledger / modeling / networks ? (Am thinking Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Blockchain ledger +). 

World University and School is like CC-4 MIT OCW in 5 languages with Wikipedia in ~300 languages seeks to become Harvard / MIT / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet for online university degrees, including with online free-to-students CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric universities' in each of all ~200 countries' official languages. 

Greetings Neha from the San Francisco Bay Area, and thank you for these great presenters, and this great conference!

I asked/ wrote as well in the Livestream chat: 

Neha & All, what's your thinking about a single cryptocurrency (with blockchain ledger) backed by ~200 central banks (eg post Euro in ~19 out of 28 nation states backed by these central banks)? Thanks.

Might it be possible to end poverty with a single cryptocurrency with blockchain & even a UBI for 7.5 billion people https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/greater-coucal-4-billion-people-in.html …

Thank you, Neha - MIT DCI and related blockchain partnering with governments seems like it could be a potentially great idea and re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... 


Thank you, 
Scott
Languages-World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod






Block chain and Robotic Systems MIT Conference online today. Begins at 6:30 am PST - https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1069996499063488512 … -  @lai > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages  ( @sgkmacleod ) - @WorldUnivAndSch  - @WUaSPress -






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Rose ringed parakeet: Stanford Annual Christmas Lecture - "Dancing Links--Donald Knuth's~" Stanford Dear Prof Aiken, Prof Emeritus Knuth, Stanford President Emeritus Hennessy, Prof Harrington MD ... * * * MIT "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/rose-ringed-parakeet-stanford-annual.html ~

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1070522440692822016

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1070522226493972481

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1070523356976361473

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1070521882863067138

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1070523580864057346

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1070522139696975872







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